AND NOW IT'S YOUR TURN!
Come take our survey of the state of the race. It is brief -- only six questions -- and it will help us develop coverage for the remaining 50 days of the primary.
Click here to take our survey.
If you'd like to compare, we gave the same survey over the weekend to 50 Philadelphia leaders. The final results of our (highly unscientific) survey:
Still, 50 percent of those polled said voters "seem uninterested and disengaged" in the race. 30 percent said voters seem interested and engaged.
Crime remains the top issue in the race, followed closely by "government, politicians or leadership." Education and schools tied with taxes for third place. We especially liked the write-in vote for "Trust, competence and incumbency (voters want the first two and hate the last)"
Among issues that voters wished would come up more often, we had new votes for "Character of the front-runners, Fattah and Knox" and another vote for repairing decaying sewer systems (by the way, Knox has brought this up in the past.)
And, among those we surveyed in our (again, completely unscientific) quiz, Michael Nutter came in first in the horse race, followed by Dwight Evans and Chaka Fattah. Tom Knox and Bob Brady tied for fifth, and Queena Bass got a vote!
Comments (2)
I think there are some very interesting points that mus be brought forward on this campaign.
1. Brady was viewed as a unifier and they only candidate to step a side when he entered the race was Saidel. Let's remember Brady is the Chairman of the Phila. Democratic party, does this mean there is not any respect for him??
2. Why are the Republican's even running a candidate.
3. Brady and Fattah are both looking to move from Washington to City Hall. This makes no sense they could help this city even more by focusing on acquiring more funding for this City's infrastructre in DC. They should not be running for mayor but looking for excellent committee appointments that enhance Phila.
4. Crime no one has given a all round solution for this. Top to bottom. Cops, DA office, Judges, Probabtion officers. This should be mony coming from Washington and we have 2 Congressmen interested in leaving.
5. When is this City going to try and acquire control of departments it has lost over the last 8 years. I guess it is OK for Harrisburg to run our Parking Authority. Don;t get me wrong they are doing a great job but we should want to acquire control back in some way or form.
6. The School District need I say more. No one even wants to discuss all the problems there. So let's sell it....
7. City government needs to be overhauled and we need to find savings such as maybe having the Rec. dept as all part time employees saving on health insurance and other benefits.
Posted by Roy Keane | March 26, 2007 8:56 PM
Just to respond to your comment on the Parking Authority, the city took the state to court for control and lost last year
Posted by gotta move | March 27, 2007 5:02 PM